People & Culture Business Partner

People & Culture Business Partner

Auckland, NZ

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity's reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us.

Rocket Lab's People & Culture team is responsible for looking after our most valuable asset: our people. Across our global teams, the People & Culture team supports our people and departments across recruitment, new staff orientation, compensation, training and development. They make sure our growing and diverse global team is supported and capable of delivering our projects and customer's missions, and they're responsible for supporting their development, nurturing their skills and talent, and retaining the world-class people already on our team.

We're looking for an experienced People & Culture Business Partner to join our team and play a critical role in delivering our P&C Annual Operating Plan. In this role, you'll partner closely with leaders and employees across the business to provide trusted guidance on a wide range of people matters and help shape a high-performing, supportive workplace.

You'll be the first point of contact for day-to-day P&C queries and will support everything from policy development and performance management to organizational development, payroll advice, and complex employment relationship issues. You'll also contribute to P&C projects and help build capability across the wider team.

What You'll Get To Do:

• Partner with leaders to support performance, talent, engagement, and organizational development.
• Provide advice and support on employment relations, policy creation, and P&C best practices.
• Work closely with payroll and legal teams to ensure accurate and compliant processes.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business.
• Support the smooth running of the P&C team and assist with wider P&C initiatives and training.

You'll Bring These Qualifications:

• 5+ years in a similar P&C Business Partner role, or 8+ years' experience within HR.
• A bachelor's degree in HR or an equivalent qualification.
• Experience with payroll processes and systems.
• Strong capability with MS Office (especially Excel) and an aptitude for learning new tools quickly.
• Excellent relationship-building, customer service, and stakeholder management skills.

If you're a proactive HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys partnering closely with teams to deliver meaningful results, we'd love to hear from you.